La plupart des guides sur l'acquisition des donn\u00e9es Scope 3 de Shell comportent une erreur fondamentale\u00a0: si vous vendez des pompes, de l'acier, des catalyseurs, des logiciels ou des services Shell, vos \u00e9missions ne sont pas incluses dans la cat\u00e9gorie 1 des donn\u00e9es Scope 3 d\u00e9clar\u00e9es par Shell. Voici les informations publi\u00e9es par Shell, les donn\u00e9es demand\u00e9es, le syst\u00e8me utilis\u00e9 et les raisons de cette demande.<\/p>\n
Le rapport annuel int\u00e9gr\u00e9 et de d\u00e9veloppement durable 2025 de Shell fait \u00e9tat d'\u00e9missions de port\u00e9e 3 de 1\u00a0065 millions de tonnes d'\u00e9quivalent CO2 (CO2e) sur une base de mise en \u00e9quivalence, dont 122 millions de tonnes pour la cat\u00e9gorie 1 (biens et services achet\u00e9s), 103 millions de tonnes pour la cat\u00e9gorie 3 (activit\u00e9s li\u00e9es aux carburants et \u00e0 l'\u00e9nergie), 4 millions de tonnes pour la cat\u00e9gorie 9 (transport et distribution en aval) et 836 millions de tonnes pour la cat\u00e9gorie 11 (utilisation des produits vendus).<\/p>\n
Lisez maintenant les \u00e9l\u00e9ments de base de la pr\u00e9paration. Le formulaire 20 F de Shell indique que la cat\u00e9gorie 1 comprend les \u00e9missions du puits au r\u00e9servoir provenant de produits \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques non finis et finis achet\u00e9s aupr\u00e8s de tiers, \u00e0 l'exclusion de l'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9, que les \u00e9missions provenant de produits non \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques achet\u00e9s ne sont pas incluses et que les \u00e9missions de cette cat\u00e9gorie sont estim\u00e9es \u00e0 l'aide de facteurs d'\u00e9mission du puits au r\u00e9servoir pour le p\u00e9trole brut, le gaz naturel, les produits p\u00e9troliers raffin\u00e9s, le GNL et les biocarburants.<\/p>\n
Il ne s'agit pas d'un regroupement des \u00e9missions de la cha\u00eene d'approvisionnement, mais d'un calcul des volumes d'hydrocarbures \u00e9chang\u00e9s. Si vous vendez des vannes, des pompes, de l'acier, des catalyseurs, des services de forage, d'ing\u00e9nierie, de services informatiques ou de conseil Shell, vos \u00e9missions ne sont pas incluses dans les chiffres publi\u00e9s par Shell.<\/p>\n
Shell ne d\u00e9clare que quatre des quinze cat\u00e9gories du Scope 3 du Protocole des GES et indique que les autres ont \u00e9t\u00e9 jug\u00e9es quantitativement et qualitativement insignifiantes. Shell a \u00e9galement revu \u00e0 la baisse ses \u00e9missions de la cat\u00e9gorie 1 pour 2023, les faisant passer de 154 \u00e0 130 millions de tonnes, soit une r\u00e9duction de 16 %, ce qui en dit long sur la nature de ce chiffre. Il s'agit d'une mod\u00e9lisation, comme le pr\u00e9cise Shell.<\/p>\n
C\u2019est ce point qui r\u00e9sout la quasi-totalit\u00e9 des probl\u00e8mes rencontr\u00e9s par les fournisseurs de Shell\u00a0: les questionnaires qui semblent n\u2019aboutir \u00e0 rien, les invitations \u00e0 la plateforme sans valeur contractuelle, les incoh\u00e9rences entre les diff\u00e9rentes unit\u00e9s commerciales de Shell. La collecte des donn\u00e9es carbone des fournisseurs par Shell est ind\u00e9pendante de ses obligations de d\u00e9claration r\u00e9glementaires de port\u00e9e\u00a03. Les donn\u00e9es que vous fournissez n\u2019entrent pas en compte dans les chiffres publi\u00e9s par Shell.<\/p>\n
Ce qui compte, c'est l'approvisionnement. La r\u00e9ponse de Shell au CDP sur le changement climatique indique collecter chaque ann\u00e9e des donn\u00e9es et des objectifs d'\u00e9missions de GES aupr\u00e8s d'environ 3 % de ses fournisseurs, ce qui repr\u00e9sente environ 26 % des d\u00e9penses d'approvisionnement et environ 28 % des \u00e9missions de port\u00e9e 3 li\u00e9es aux fournisseurs. Il s'agit de la soumission de 2023 couvrant les donn\u00e9es de 2022, et c'est la r\u00e9ponse publique la plus r\u00e9cente du CDP sur shell.com\u00a0; il convient donc de la dater plut\u00f4t que de la pr\u00e9senter comme \u00e9tant \u00e0 jour.<\/p>\n
Cela influence \u00e9galement la tendance. Shell a publiquement abandonn\u00e9 son objectif de r\u00e9duction de 45 % de son intensit\u00e9 carbone nette pour 2035 et a assoupli son objectif pour 2030, le ramenant \u00e0 une r\u00e9duction de 15 \u00e0 20 % par rapport \u00e0 2016. Un porte-parole de Shell a expliqu\u00e9 la d\u00e9cision concernant 2035 en mars 2024 en indiquant que, lors de la fixation de cet objectif, on supposait que le monde mettrait en place un syst\u00e8me de comptabilisation des \u00e9missions de carbone, ce qui n'a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 le cas, et que Shell ne peut donc pas suivre l'objectif de 2035 \u00e0 ce jour.<\/p>\n
Consid\u00e9rez cette citation du point de vue d'un fournisseur. Une multinationale a renonc\u00e9 \u00e0 un objectif public car l'infrastructure de donn\u00e9es carbone n'existe pas. Or, les donn\u00e9es qui vous sont demand\u00e9es constituent pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cette infrastructure. Cela transforme la demande\u00a0: d'une simple obligation de conformit\u00e9, elle devient une question de structure de march\u00e9, et r\u00e9v\u00e8le o\u00f9 se situe le v\u00e9ritable pouvoir de n\u00e9gociation.<\/p>\n
SAP Ariba est la plateforme d'approvisionnement de Shell. Shell utilise un syst\u00e8me de qualification des fournisseurs et exige qu'un fournisseur remplisse un questionnaire de profil fournisseur avant de pouvoir participer aux appels d'offres g\u00e9r\u00e9s par Ariba. Shell publie un guide d'inscription des fournisseurs Ariba sur shell.com. Il s'agit de la premi\u00e8re \u00e9tape franchie par la plupart des fournisseurs, et les informations relatives aux crit\u00e8res ESG (environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance) y sont li\u00e9es \u00e0 la qualification, et non \u00e0 l'inventaire des produits.<\/p>\n
Lanc\u00e9e en 2021, la plateforme Shell Supplier Energy Transition Hub est la seule plateforme de donn\u00e9es carbone que Shell ait jamais nomm\u00e9e publiquement. Gratuite et ouverte m\u00eame aux non-fournisseurs, elle vise \u00e0 aider les fournisseurs \u00e0 d\u00e9finir des objectifs de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions, \u00e0 suivre leurs performances, \u00e0 partager les meilleures pratiques et \u00e0 \u00e9changer des donn\u00e9es sur leurs \u00e9missions. Harry Brekelmans, alors directeur des projets et de la technologie chez Shell, l'a d\u00e9crite lors de son lancement comme un excellent exemple d\u00e9montrant que ce n'est pas seulement la technologie, mais aussi la collaboration, qui permettra d'atteindre la neutralit\u00e9 carbone. Fin 2022, Shell comptait 1\u00a0039 fournisseurs inscrits, contre 258 en 2021, dont 460 s'\u00e9taient fix\u00e9s des objectifs de r\u00e9duction des \u00e9missions.<\/p>\n
Soyez honn\u00eate sur la suite des \u00e9v\u00e9nements, car personne d'autre ne le fait. Le Hub n'est mentionn\u00e9 ni dans le Rapport de d\u00e9veloppement durable 2023 de Shell, ni dans le Rapport annuel int\u00e9gr\u00e9 de d\u00e9veloppement durable pour l'exercice 2025, et Shell n'a publi\u00e9 aucun chiffre de participation depuis 2022. Cela ne prouve pas sa mise hors service, mais simplement que Shell a cess\u00e9 de communiquer \u00e0 son sujet. Exprimez-le clairement.<\/p>\n
Au niveau r\u00e9gional, Achilles et la communaut\u00e9 Oil and Gas Europe constituent la voie de pr\u00e9qualification utilis\u00e9e par Shell et ses concurrents pour l'ensemble des cha\u00eenes d'approvisionnement p\u00e9troli\u00e8res et gazi\u00e8res au Royaume-Uni et en Europe. Ces organismes g\u00e8rent des modules d'\u00e9valuation des \u00e9missions de carbone. Pour de nombreux fournisseurs, la premi\u00e8re question relative au carbone leur est pos\u00e9e via Achilles, et non directement par Shell.<\/p>\n
Que la demande provienne de Shell, d'Achilles, d'EcoVadis, de CDP Supply Chain ou d'un client d'un autre secteur, le dossier de donn\u00e9es du fournisseur cr\u00e9dible selon la norme GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain et la m\u00e9thodologie PACT comprend les m\u00eames six \u00e9l\u00e9ments.<\/p>\n
Trois facteurs incitent \u00e0 transformer les estimations de d\u00e9penses en exigences de donn\u00e9es sur les fournisseurs principaux. La norme IFRS S2 est la premi\u00e8re norme mondiale majeure \u00e0 exiger le respect du Scope 3, et son adoption se g\u00e9n\u00e9ralise. En Californie, la loi SB 253 impose au CARB l'obligation de d\u00e9clarer les Scopes 1 et 2 \u00e0 partir de 2026, le Scope 3 \u00e9tant pr\u00e9vu pour 2027. Par ailleurs, la norme Scope 3 du Protocole GES est elle-m\u00eame en cours de r\u00e9vision\u00a0: un bilan de la phase 1 a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 le 31 mars 2026, un projet de consultation publique est attendu au second semestre 2026 et la version finale r\u00e9vis\u00e9e est pr\u00e9vue pour fin 2027.<\/p>\n
Mais il existe un plafond, et presque personne dans les articles traitant des donn\u00e9es carbone des fournisseurs dans le secteur de l'\u00e9nergie ne vous en a parl\u00e9. La loi omnibus de l'UE, adopt\u00e9e le 24 f\u00e9vrier 2026 et publi\u00e9e au Journal officiel le 26 f\u00e9vrier 2026, a restreint le champ d'application de la d\u00e9claration des \u00e9missions de carbone des fournisseurs (CSRD) et introduit un plafond par cha\u00eene de valeur\u00a0: les entreprises de 1\u00a0000\u00a0salari\u00e9s ou moins peuvent refuser de fournir des informations allant au-del\u00e0 du standard des tr\u00e8s petites et moyennes entreprises (TPE) pour la d\u00e9claration CSRD d'un client.<\/p>\n
Comprenez pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment ce que ce plafond implique et ce qu'il n'implique pas. Il limite les exigences que l'on peut vous demander pour appuyer la d\u00e9claration CSRD d'un client. Il ne limite pas les demandes que le client peut formuler \u00e0 titre commercial, dans le cadre d'un appel d'offres ou d'un contrat. Utilisez-le donc pour n\u00e9gocier le p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre de la prestation, de mani\u00e8re courtoise et par \u00e9crit, et non pour refuser. Cette distinction est la diff\u00e9rence concr\u00e8te entre un fournisseur qui para\u00eet difficile et un fournisseur qui para\u00eet comp\u00e9tent.<\/p>\n
Il est \u00e9galement important d'interpr\u00e9ter correctement les crit\u00e8res de Shell. En 2024, Shell a int\u00e9gr\u00e9 \u00e0 son processus de gestion des cat\u00e9gories et de contractualisation une politique de vigilance renforc\u00e9e pour les nouveaux contrats pr\u00e9sentant les impacts potentiels les plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s. Cette politique a \u00e9t\u00e9 pleinement op\u00e9rationnelle d\u00e8s 2025. Ce crit\u00e8re est li\u00e9 aux droits humains, et non aux \u00e9missions de carbone. Shell a mis en place un m\u00e9canisme formel de vigilance des fournisseurs, mais l'a orient\u00e9 vers un autre domaine.<\/p>\n
\u00c9tape 0\u00a0: identifiez la porte d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 laquelle vous vous trouvez. Il peut s\u2019agir d\u2019une qualification Ariba, d\u2019une annexe ESG \u00e0 un appel d\u2019offres, du Supplier Energy Transition Hub, d\u2019une pr\u00e9qualification Achilles, ou d\u2019une demande CDP ou EcoVadis \u00e9manant d\u2019un autre client. Les exigences varient et la plupart des fournisseurs r\u00e9pondent \u00e0 la mauvaise question.<\/p>\n
\u00c9tape 1\u00a0: obtenez le num\u00e9ro d\u2019entit\u00e9 avant le num\u00e9ro de produit. Les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres 1 et 2 sont d\u00e9finis par march\u00e9 et localisation, pour l\u2019ann\u00e9e en cours et l\u2019ann\u00e9e pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente. \u00c9tape 2\u00a0: produisez l\u2019empreinte carbone d\u2019un seul produit, pour votre produit le plus rentable, de l\u2019extraction des mati\u00e8res premi\u00e8res \u00e0 la sortie d\u2019usine, conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 la version 3 de PACT ou aux directives TfS si vous \u00eates dans le secteur chimique. Une empreinte carbone justifi\u00e9e vaut mieux qu\u2019un ensemble d\u2019empreintes non document\u00e9es. \u00c9tape 3\u00a0: d\u00e9clarez la qualit\u00e9 de vos donn\u00e9es en toute transparence. Un fournisseur qui annonce 60\u00a0% de donn\u00e9es primaires, une assurance limit\u00e9e et la norme Ecoinvent 3.10 est imm\u00e9diatement plus cr\u00e9dible qu\u2019un fournisseur qui revendique une pr\u00e9cision qu\u2019il ne peut pas garantir, et les auditeurs v\u00e9rifient d\u00e9sormais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment ce point. \u00c9tape 4\u00a0: n\u2019achetez une notation que si un client en fait la demande. \u00c9tape 5\u00a0: connaissez votre plafond d\u2019\u00e9missions dans le cadre du plafond de la cha\u00eene de valeur de l\u2019UE.<\/p>\n
Vient ensuite l'\u00e9tape 6, celle qui rapporte. Proposez une valeur ajout\u00e9e, pas un chiffre. \u00ab Notre vanne a une empreinte carbone de X kilogrammes CO2e par unit\u00e9, soit 22 % de moins que la moyenne du secteur \u00bb est une r\u00e9ponse convaincante. \u00ab Nous nous engageons \u00e0 atteindre la neutralit\u00e9 carbone \u00bb ne l'est pas. Deuxi\u00e8mement, expliquez au client le calcul : avec une estimation bas\u00e9e sur les d\u00e9penses, vos am\u00e9liorations sont invisibles pour lui et le seul moyen de r\u00e9duire ses \u00e9missions est de diminuer ses achats. Fournissez des donn\u00e9es primaires et vous lui offrirez une r\u00e9duction concr\u00e8te. Int\u00e9grez cette r\u00e9duction dans votre prix. Troisi\u00e8mement, simplifiez les choses. Le CDP indique que moins de la moiti\u00e9 des entreprises qui demandent des donn\u00e9es environnementales \u00e0 leurs fournisseurs les re\u00e7oivent effectivement. R\u00e9pondre de mani\u00e8re compl\u00e8te et dans les d\u00e9lais vous place dans la premi\u00e8re moiti\u00e9 du classement des fournisseurs des grands groupes, ce qui est un crit\u00e8re \u00e9tonnamment bas et un v\u00e9ritable atout lors du renouvellement des contrats.<\/p>\n
Pour les m\u00e9canismes de cat\u00e9gorie sous-jacents, notre Explication de la cat\u00e9gorie 1 du champ d'application 3<\/a> est la pi\u00e8ce m\u00e8re, et Qu\u2019est-ce qu\u2019une demande d\u2019approvisionnement durable\u00a0?<\/a> couvre en d\u00e9tail la couche Ariba et la couche de qualification.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comment Shell acquiert r\u00e9ellement les donn\u00e9es des fournisseurs de port\u00e9e 3\u00a0: le portail Ariba, le Supplier Energy Transition Hub, ce qui vous sera demand\u00e9 et pourquoi vos \u00e9missions ne sont pas dans la cat\u00e9gorie 1 de Shell.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"p54_article_data":"{\"meta\":{\"kicker\":\"Insight \u00b7 Supply Chain\",\"topics\":[\"Procurement\",\"Strategy\"],\"title\":\"Shell Scope 3 Data Acquisition: What Suppliers Are Actually Asked For\",\"dek\":\"Most guides to Shell's Scope 3 data acquisition get one thing badly wrong. If you sell Shell pumps, steel, catalysts, software or services, your emissions are not in Shell's reported Scope 3 Category 1 at all. Here is what Shell publishes, what it asks for, through which system, and why the request arrives anyway.\",\"date\":\"13 July 2026\",\"readTime\":\"13 min read\",\"author\":\"Project 54, Research & Strategy\",\"listenTime\":\"23:21\"},\"quickAnswer\":{\"q\":\"How does Shell acquire Scope 3 data, and what must a supplier provide?\",\"a\":\"Shell's reported Scope 3 Category 1 figure is calculated from purchased energy product volumes using well to tank emission factors, and Shell's own basis of preparation states that emissions from purchased non energy products are not included. So if you supply Shell with goods or services rather than hydrocarbons, your emissions do not sit inside Shell's disclosed Category 1 number. Shell's supplier carbon data collection runs on a separate and largely voluntary track: registration and qualification through SAP Ariba, the Shell Supplier Energy Transition Hub launched in 2021, and regional prequalification communities such as Achilles. Shell has never publicly named a mandatory supplier carbon data platform, and it has not reported Hub participation figures since 2022.\"},\"takeaways\":[\"The counter intuitive fact: Shell's Form 20 F basis of preparation says Category 1 covers well to tank emissions from purchased third party energy products, and that emissions from purchased non energy products are not included.\",\"Shell reports only 4 of the 15 GHG Protocol Scope 3 categories, 1, 3, 9 and 11, and states the others were assessed as insignificant.\",\"Shell's Category 1 was 122 million tonnes CO2e in 2025 against a total significant Scope 3 of 1,065 million tonnes. Category 11, use of sold products, is 836 million tonnes. The supply chain is a rounding error next to the product.\",\"Shell spent roughly 40 billion dollars on goods and services in 2025, across a supplier base reported at about 25,000 in 2023. Its own CDP disclosure describes collecting emissions data from around 3 percent of suppliers by number.\",\"The enhanced value chain due diligence policy Shell introduced in 2024, first fully operational in 2025, is scoped to human rights, not carbon.\",\"The commercial move is not compliance. Under spend based estimation your decarbonisation is invisible to your customer. Primary data is the only route by which your reductions show up in their inventory.\"],\"sections\":[{\"id\":\"sec1\",\"q\":\"What does Shell actually report?\",\"h\":\"Four categories, and a Category 1 that is not your supply chain\",\"p\":[\"Shell's Integrated Annual and Sustainability Report 2025 reports Scope 3 emissions of 1,065 million tonnes CO2e on an equity basis, of which Category 1, purchased goods and services, is 122 million tonnes, Category 3, fuel and energy related activities, is 103 million tonnes, Category 9, downstream transport and distribution, is 4 million tonnes, and Category 11, use of sold products, is 836 million tonnes.\",\"Now read the basis of preparation. Shell's Form 20 F states that Category 1 includes well to tank emissions from purchased third party unfinished and finished energy products excluding electricity, that emissions from purchased non energy products are not included, and that emissions in the category are estimated using well to tank emission factors for crude oil, natural gas, refined oil products, LNG and biofuels.\",\"That is not a supply chain roll up. It is a traded hydrocarbon volume calculation. If you sell Shell valves, pumps, steel, catalysts, drilling services, engineering, IT or consulting, your emissions are not in the number Shell publishes.\",\"Shell reports only four of the fifteen GHG Protocol Scope 3 categories and states that the others were assessed as quantitatively and qualitatively insignificant. Shell also restated Category 1 for 2023 downward, from 154 to 130 million tonnes, a 16 percent revision, which tells you what kind of number it is. It is modelled, and Shell says so.\"],\"table\":{\"cols\":[\"Shell Scope 3 category\",\"2025, Mt CO2e\",\"2024\",\"What it actually contains\"],\"rows\":[[\"Cat 1, purchased goods and services\",\"122\",\"119\",\"Well to tank emissions of purchased third party energy products. Non energy goods and services are excluded\"],[\"Cat 3, fuel and energy related activities\",\"103\",\"117\",\"Upstream emissions of fuels and energy Shell buys, not covered in Scope 1 or 2\"],[\"Cat 9, downstream transport and distribution\",\"4\",\"3\",\"Distribution of sold products\"],[\"Cat 11, use of sold products\",\"836\",\"845\",\"Combustion of the oil and gas Shell sells. This is the number that moves\"],[\"Total significant Scope 3\",\"1,065\",\"1,084\",\"Four of fifteen categories. The other eleven are assessed as insignificant\"]]}},{\"id\":\"sec2\",\"q\":\"Then why am I being asked for carbon data?\",\"h\":\"Because acquisition and disclosure are two different tracks\",\"p\":[\"This is the point that resolves almost every confusing thing a Shell supplier experiences: the questionnaire that seems to go nowhere, the platform invitation with no contractual teeth, the inconsistency between one Shell business unit and another. Shell's supplier carbon data collection is decoupled from its statutory Scope 3 disclosure. The data you provide is not feeding the number Shell publishes.\",\"What it is feeding is procurement. Shell's own CDP Climate Change response describes collecting GHG emissions data and targets at least annually from around 3 percent of suppliers by number, representing about 26 percent of procurement spend and about 28 percent of supplier related Scope 3. That is the 2023 submission covering 2022 data, and it is the most recent public CDP response on shell.com, so date stamp it rather than presenting it as current.\",\"It is also feeding the direction of travel. Shell publicly retired its 2035 target of a 45 percent reduction in net carbon intensity and loosened its 2030 target to 15 to 20 percent against 2016. A Shell spokesperson explained the 2035 decision in March 2024 by saying that when the target was provided, it was assumed the world would develop an accounting system for tracking carbon emissions, that this has not happened, and that Shell therefore cannot track the 2035 target today.\",\"Read that quote as a supplier. A supermajor abandoned a public target because the carbon data infrastructure does not exist. The data you are being asked for is the infrastructure. That reframes the request from compliance chore to market structure, and it tells you where the leverage sits.\"]},{\"id\":\"sec3\",\"q\":\"Which systems will I actually meet?\",\"h\":\"Ariba, the Hub, and the prequalification communities\",\"p\":[\"SAP Ariba is Shell's procurement platform. Shell runs a Supplier Qualification System and requires a Supplier Profile Questionnaire before a supplier can take part in Ariba managed sourcing events. Shell publishes an Ariba supplier registration guide on shell.com. This is the gate most suppliers actually hit first, and the ESG content in it is qualification content, not inventory content.\",\"The Shell Supplier Energy Transition Hub, launched in 2021, is the only carbon data platform Shell has ever publicly named. It is free of charge and open even to non suppliers, and its purpose is to help suppliers set emission ambitions, track performance, share best practice and exchange emissions data. Harry Brekelmans, then Shell's Projects and Technology Director, described it at launch as a great example that it is not just technology, but collaboration, that will drive transformation to net zero emissions. Shell reported 1,039 suppliers joined by the end of 2022, up from 258 in 2021, of which 460 had set emission reduction targets.\",\"Be honest about what happened next, because nobody else writing on this query is. The Hub is not mentioned in Shell's Sustainability Report 2023, nor in the FY2025 Integrated Annual and Sustainability Report, and Shell has published no participation figures since 2022. That is not evidence it has been retired. It is evidence Shell has stopped reporting on it. State it that way.\",\"Regionally, Achilles and the Oil and Gas Europe community are the prequalification route used across UK and European oil and gas supply chains by Shell and its peers, and they carry carbon modules. For many suppliers the first carbon question arrives there, not from Shell directly.\"]},{\"id\":\"sec4\",\"q\":\"What data will I be asked to produce?\",\"h\":\"Six fields, and only one of them is a number\",\"p\":[\"Whether the request comes from Shell, from Achilles, from EcoVadis, from CDP Supply Chain or from a customer in another sector, the credible supplier data pack under the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain standard and the PACT methodology is the same six things.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"Product carbon footprint per functional unit\",\"d\":\"Kilograms of CO2e per kilogram, per unit or per litre, cradle to gate. Not a company total. PACT and Together for Sustainability both work at this level.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"Scope 1 and Scope 2 of the supplying entity\",\"d\":\"Current year and one prior, with Scope 2 reported both market based and location based. This is the cheapest credible artefact you can produce and it unlocks nearly every questionnaire.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"Emission factor methodology and source\",\"d\":\"Which database, which version, which vintage. Ecoinvent 3.10 is an answer. Industry averages is not.\"},{\"n\":\"04\",\"t\":\"Allocation method\",\"d\":\"Mass, economic or physical causality. This is the single most contested field in any footprint challenge, and PACT version 3 tightened it. Document it before you are asked.\"},{\"n\":\"05\",\"t\":\"Verification and assurance level\",\"d\":\"None, self declared, limited or reasonable, and by whom. Assurance is the trust bottleneck, which is why the TfS product carbon footprint guideline was audited by TUV Rheinland.\"},{\"n\":\"06\",\"t\":\"Data quality score\",\"d\":\"The GHG Protocol data quality indicators, plus your primary to secondary data ratio. Under CSRD your ratio becomes your customer's disclosure, which is why they now test it.\"}]},{\"id\":\"sec5\",\"q\":\"What is forcing the change, and what protects me?\",\"h\":\"Regulation is pushing, and the EU Omnibus put a ceiling on it\",\"p\":[\"Three drivers are converting spend based estimates into demands for primary supplier data. IFRS S2 is the first major global standard to require Scope 3, and adoption is spreading across jurisdictions. California's SB 253 has CARB requiring Scope 1 and 2 reporting from 2026 with Scope 3 beginning in 2027. And the GHG Protocol Scope 3 standard is itself under revision, with a Phase 1 progress update published on 31 March 2026, a public consultation draft expected in the second half of 2026 and a final revised standard targeted for late 2027.\",\"But there is a ceiling, and almost nobody writing about supplier carbon data in an energy context has told you about it. The EU Omnibus, adopted on 24 February 2026 and published in the Official Journal on 26 February 2026, narrowed CSRD scope and introduced a value chain cap: undertakings with 1,000 employees or fewer may decline to provide information beyond the VSME standard for a customer's CSRD reporting.\",\"Understand precisely what that cap does and does not do. It limits what can be demanded of you to support a customer's CSRD disclosure. It does not limit what a customer can ask for commercially, in a tender, or under a contract. So use it to negotiate scope, politely and in writing, not to refuse. That distinction is the practical difference between a supplier who looks difficult and a supplier who looks competent.\",\"It is also worth reading Shell's own gate correctly. Shell introduced a policy within its Category Management and Contracting Process in 2024 setting out enhanced due diligence for new contracts with the highest potential impacts, and 2025 was the first full year it was operational. That gate is scoped to human rights, not to carbon. Shell built a formal supplier due diligence mechanism and pointed it somewhere else.\"]},{\"id\":\"sec6\",\"q\":\"How do I turn this into commercial advantage?\",\"h\":\"Six stages, and three moves that get you paid\",\"p\":[\"Stage 0, work out which gate you are at. Ariba qualification, a tender ESG annex, the Supplier Energy Transition Hub, Achilles prequalification, or a CDP or EcoVadis request from a different customer. They demand different things and most suppliers answer the wrong one.\",\"Stage 1, get the entity number before the product number. Scope 1 and Scope 2, market and location based, current year plus one prior. Stage 2, produce one product carbon footprint, for your highest revenue product, cradle to gate, under PACT version 3 or the TfS guideline if you are in chemicals. One defensible footprint beats a portfolio of undocumented ones. Stage 3, declare your data quality honestly. A supplier who says 60 percent primary, limited assurance, ecoinvent 3.10 is instantly more credible than one claiming a precision it cannot defend, and auditors now test exactly this. Stage 4, buy a rating only when a customer asks for one. Stage 5, know your ceiling under the EU value chain cap.\",\"Then Stage 6, the part that pays. Bid with a delta, not a number. Our valve has a footprint of X kilograms CO2e per unit, 22 percent below the sector average, is a scoreable tender answer. We are committed to net zero is not. Second, sell the customer's arithmetic back to them: under spend based estimation, your improvements are invisible to your buyer and the only way their number falls is by buying less from you. Offer primary data and you hand them a reduction they can book. Price that. Third, be the easy supplier. CDP reports that fewer than half of companies which request environmental data from suppliers actually receive it. Responding fully and on time puts you in the top half of a major's supply base, which is a shockingly low bar and a real advantage at renewal.\",\"For the underlying category mechanics, our Scope 3 Category 1 explainer<\/a> is the parent piece, and What Is a Sustainable Procurement Application<\/a> covers the Ariba and qualification layer in detail.\"]}],\"media\":{\"image\":{\"src\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/engineers-reviewing-supplier-data.jpg\",\"label\":\"The supplier data gate is where carbon claims are won or lost.\",\"credit\":\"Project 54\"},\"infographicLabel\":\"Shell's four reported Scope 3 categories, and where supplier data actually goes.\",\"pdf\":{\"href\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shell-scope-3-data-acquisition-supplier-guide.pdf\",\"title\":\"Shell Scope 3 Data Acquisition, Slide Deck\",\"meta\":\"Briefing deck \u00b7 Project 54\"},\"podcast\":{\"src\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shell-scope-3-data-acquisition-supplier-guide-podcast.m4a\",\"title\":\"Shell Scope 3 Data Acquisition\",\"ep\":\"P54 Energy Growth Brief\",\"duration\":\"23:21\"},\"video\":{\"src\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shell-scope-3-data-acquisition-supplier-guide-video.mp4\",\"label\":\"Shell Scope 3 Data Acquisition\",\"duration\":\"9:02\",\"poster\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shell-scope-3-data-acquisition-supplier-guide-poster.jpg\"}},\"poll\":{\"q\":\"You supply non energy goods to Shell. Where do your emissions appear in Shell's reported Scope 3?\",\"options\":[{\"id\":\"a\",\"label\":\"Nowhere. Category 1 excludes purchased non energy products\",\"insight\":\"Correct, and it is stated in Shell's own basis of preparation. Category 1 is a well to tank calculation on purchased energy products. Your carbon data is being collected for procurement and for a future accounting system, not for the number Shell publishes today.\"},{\"id\":\"b\",\"label\":\"In Category 1, purchased goods and services\",\"insight\":\"The intuitive answer and the wrong one. The category name is misleading. Shell defines it narrowly around purchased energy products and excludes non energy goods explicitly.\"},{\"id\":\"c\",\"label\":\"In Category 11, use of sold products\",\"insight\":\"No. Category 11 is the combustion of the oil and gas Shell sells, 836 million tonnes in 2025. It is the largest number by an order of magnitude and it has nothing to do with your supply.\"},{\"id\":\"d\",\"label\":\"In one of the eleven categories Shell does not report\",\"insight\":\"Close in spirit. Shell reports four of fifteen categories and assessed the rest as insignificant. But purchased non energy goods are excluded from the category where they would sit, not deferred to another one.\"}],\"note\":\"No tallies. Each option corrects a specific misreading of Shell's disclosure.\"},\"faq\":[{\"q\":\"Does Shell require suppliers to provide Scope 3 or product carbon footprint data?\",\"a\":\"Shell has never publicly named a mandatory supplier carbon data platform. Its Supplier Principles require suppliers to comply with environmental law, use energy and natural resources efficiently and continually look for ways to minimise emissions, which is an effort obligation rather than a data submission obligation. In practice carbon questions reach suppliers through SAP Ariba qualification, tender ESG annexes, the voluntary Supplier Energy Transition Hub, and regional prequalification communities such as Achilles.\"},{\"q\":\"Are my emissions included in Shell's reported Scope 3 Category 1 figure?\",\"a\":\"If you supply non energy goods or services, no. Shell's basis of preparation states that Category 1 covers well to tank emissions from purchased third party energy products and that emissions from purchased non energy products are not included. Category 1 was 122 million tonnes CO2e in 2025, calculated from well to tank emission factors for crude, gas, refined products, LNG and biofuels.\"},{\"q\":\"What is the Shell Supplier Energy Transition Hub, and is it still running?\",\"a\":\"It is a free platform Shell launched in 2021, open even to non suppliers, for setting emission ambitions, tracking performance and exchanging emissions data. Shell reported 1,039 suppliers joined by end 2022, of which 460 had set reduction targets. Shell has published no participation figures since 2022 and the Hub is not mentioned in the Sustainability Report 2023 or the FY2025 Integrated Annual and Sustainability Report. That is not evidence it has been retired, only that Shell has stopped reporting on it.\"},{\"q\":\"What data will Shell actually ask me for, and through which system?\",\"a\":\"Registration and qualification run through SAP Ariba, using Shell's Supplier Qualification System and Supplier Profile Questionnaire. Carbon questions typically ask for your entity level Scope 1 and Scope 2, a product carbon footprint per unit, your emission factor source and version, your allocation method, your assurance level and your primary to secondary data ratio. In the UK and Europe the first carbon question often arrives through Achilles prequalification rather than from Shell directly.\"},{\"q\":\"What happens if I cannot provide primary carbon data?\",\"a\":\"Commercially you are scored down rather than excluded, because most majors still fall back on spend based estimates. Legally, if you have 1,000 employees or fewer, the EU Omnibus value chain cap adopted on 24 February 2026 lets you decline to provide information beyond the VSME standard for a customer's CSRD reporting. That cap does not apply to commercial or contractual requests, so it is a tool for negotiating scope, not for refusing.\"}],\"newsletter\":{\"kicker\":\"The Energy Growth Brief\",\"title\":[\"Intelligence,\",\"to your inbox\"],\"body\":\"Join energy and industrial leaders getting our marketing, AI-growth and revenue-architecture intelligence, direct, no filler.\",\"placeholder\":\"you@company.com\",\"cta\":\"Subscribe\",\"note\":\"No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. 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